Podcasts from the vault - iDig Video #005

Media Wizard Don Goble joins us for the first of a two part podcast in which we explore innovative ways for teachers to use video in their classroom. If you’ve never created a video assignment for students or if you have your own media lab – Don Goble offers amazing insights into the value of using video – how to create projects – and why Media Literacy is such an essential tool for all students in the 21st century.

iDig Video #005: How2 Use Video in Class

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Podcasts from the vault - iDig Video #004

This week on iDig Video: In “Hot Topics of the Week” – The new iPads are are out and we give them a test run. In our film segment we discuss how to use two modern classics in the classroom . Also –  kickstart assignments for students to view films in ways that will show them how to use video and audio in innovative ways in their own work.

iDig Video #004: Cool Movies to Teach

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My favorite TED talks about the Power of Film

As you know I love the movies and the power of video to move us to another time and place. As I usually do on weekend mornings before the rest of my house awake I caught up on some TED talks.  The recently released TED talk by Don Levy reminded me of some of my other favorite TED talks about different aspects of the movie making process and here they are to share with you.

For more TED videos, check out the playlist the Power of Film

Podcasts from the vault - iDig Video #003

This week on iDig Video: Video on the iPad! In “Hot Topics of the Week” – The new iPads are on the shelves – hear our discussion about them and the new Apple TV. iMovie and Garageband have special new features on the iPad and we look into how these apps can be used in the classroom. Also Khan Academy’s new iPad App;  TED video lessons for high school and college students; and YouTube for School – how you can use these resources that are changing the face of education!

iDig Video 003: Video on the iPad!

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Most Popular Post of 2012 - Copying files using Terminal

This was one of my shortest posts but seems to be the most popular one.  I have become the data recovery specialist amongst my friends and increasing have been given old laptops and desktops in hopes of recovering any old pictures or files off them for my friends. Without further ado, Mac Integration's Top Post of 2012


Recently I had to recover some files from a friend's Windows XP harddrive, this seems to be becoming a trend for me. I was able to mount the drive in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion using my Universal Harddrive adapter from OWC but I wasn't able to copy files from the drive as a group becuase there were frequent errors with individual files. Since I wasn't able to use finders copy I knew there had to be a way to force copy files from one location to another. Essentially I knew I needed to tell the computer to copy all the files it could from the drive and ignore the rest. Lucky Terminal came to the rescue. After a quick consult with another friend, I was reminded of Terminal's functionality in copying files but all skipping file with errors and moving onto the next file to copy.

Here is how to do it

cp -RfXv "[source folder]" [destination directory]/[foldername]/

cp  - is the command forTerminal to copy.

R - is for Recursive, and will force the copy command to not only hit folders, but all items within, including subfolders.

f - forces Terminal to copy everything without stopping.

X - tells Terminal to overwrite existing files.

v - puts the command into verbose mode, this way you'll see a scrolling list of what is actually happening as it works

Once you hit return, you should start seeing a list of files start scrolling across your screen!